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WE HAVE SPENT a lot of time studying what happens when our working memory Conductor fails to keep control—from kids struggling to keep up in the classroom to bad habits such as gambling and overeating and failing to meet deadlines at work. An overtaxed working memory may even be behind your feeling like a grump all the time, or an inability to control your wandering eye even though you’ve found “the one.” At the heart of why working memory is so important in endeavors from work to school, to sports, to dieting is a core set of skills that a strong working memory enables us to exercise. To dig deeper into how working memory operates and how it enhances our lives, in this chapter we focus on this essential skill set, starting with perhaps the most distinctive feature of human life: our will—that is, the ability to choose for ourselves, to act, to carry out plans, to take responsibility for what we do.